African grey?

[Parrotkeeper02]

I am considering and grey I am wondering about the costs and care about the bird and I know they are really expensive here in NZ.

[Pajarita]

Well, I don't know about the price of a baby in NZ but, when it comes to maintenance expenses (housing, food, medical, toys, etc), they are the same as any other parrot of a similar size; and the actual cost depends on how much you want to spend on them because you can go from keeping them in a small cage in a corner of your living room and feeding them cheap seeds or pellets to giving them their own room with special lights and an organic, fresh food diet.

[Wolf]

And the more you put into their daily care including the time for personal interaction and flying the cheaper the other expenses such as vet bills will be.

[Parrotkeeper02]

Actually I don't think I should get a grey I don't have 6h a day to spend with it because I got to go to school and study

[Wolf]

Good choice ! My Grey would be highly irritated with me if all I spent with her was only 6 hours a day. She thinks that I am all hers and therefor am supposed to spend all of my time with her.

[Pajarita]

Ahhh, yes, grays are great but they do require hours and hours and hours of company to be content...

[Parrotkeeper02]

Haha btw how do u guys have soo much extra time to spend?

[liz]

We do not have extra time.
My Amazons are not caged so they get involved with my routine. Like a toddler, you spend quality time with them but are in constant contact all day.

[Pajarita]

Haha btw how do u guys have soo much extra time to spend?

Ahhh, well, in my case, it's because I am a woman of leisure (who gets up before 5am during the summer so she can feed her parrots at dawn, never goes anywhere farther than a couple of hours car ride, and who spends her entire days in pleasant pursuits like cleaning, scrubbing, cooking, grooming dogs, doing laundry, etc)

[Parrotkeeper02]

Liz I like your way of not keeping birds caged but that would be difficult for me